Chapter Seventeen

"Mama can I tell you a secret?"

"Go ahead Pearl."

"Pinky promise you won't tell a soul "he says bringing his pinkie forward. I do as he said and wait.

"Dannie says he wishes you were his mother. "

"Wait, when did he say that?"

"During our sleepover last week. He said you are good to him and Ellie all the time and that he loves you."

"Oooh. Wow "

"No that's not all he was like 'Pearl I love your mum, she is the best and she loves Ellie and me. Can I share your mummy' and I was like 'it will be so cool we will be brothers 'and he was like 'that is nice and he asked me not to tell anyone "I laugh as he completes all in one breath.

"Why did you tell me then?"

"You're my mama and we don't have secrets"

"Is that all?"

"Nope, can Miles be my daddy?"

"I don't know honey. "

He nods and gets up "okay I will have to ask him then. Bye Mama Kenna is already here, don't be late for work. "he says as he opens the door for my sisters who are babysitting him today.

All day at work I'm thinking of wh